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Alhussein Abouzeid
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Univ. of Washington
Research Interests
Computer networks
Ishwara B. Bhat
Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer
Solid state, electronic materials.
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Areas of Advanced Research
Kim Boyer
Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University
 

Research Interests
Computer vision and medical image analysis.

Joe H. Chow
Professor, Ph.D.,Illinois
Large-scale modeling, multivariable control systems.
Research Interests
Intelligent Control, Robotics and Automation
T. Paul Chow
Professor, Ph.D. Rensselaer
Semiconductor Devices and Processes.
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Kenneth A. Connor
Professor, Ph.D. Polytechnic of New York
Electromagnetic theory, wave propagation, plasmas for fusion research.
Research Interests
Electromagnetic's and Plasma Diagnostics
Engineering Education and Interactive Learning
Robert C. Degeneff
Emeritus Professor, P.E. Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Transformers, HVDC, Planning
Research Interests
The modeling of large systems during transient events
Alan A. Desrochers
Professor, Ph.D., Purdue
Nonlinear systems, robotics, control of automated manufacturing systems.
Research Interests
Intelligent Control, Robotics and Automation
Partha Dutta
Professor, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science
Solid State Physics, Electronic Engineering Design, Optoelectronics
Research Interests
Semiconductor Materials Growth, Processing and Devices, Photonics, Nanotechnology, Free Space Optical Communication
W. Randolph Franklin
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard
Computational cartography, computer graphics, computational geometry, and geographic information science, emphasizing small, simple, and fast data structures and algorithms, and security and privacy.
Lester A. Gerhardt
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Engineering; Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Education, Acting, Ph.D., S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
Communication systems, digital voice and image processing, adaptive systems and pattern recognition, computer-integrated manufacturing.
Research Interests
Multimedia Systems, Image/Signal Processing and Networking
Intelligent Control, Robotics and Automation
Ronald J. Gutmann
Emeritus Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer
Semiconductor devices, microwave monolithic integrated circuits, microwave nondestructive testing techniques, interconnect technology.
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Mona Hella
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., The Ohio-State University
Radio frequency integrated circuit design, Multi-GB/s Broadband Communication Circuits, wireless communication circuits for bio-implantable microsystems.
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Zhaoran (Rena) Huang
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interest
Optoelectronic device design, fabrication and integration, optical modulator, vertical beam steering, LED encapsulation and packaging, power electronic component packaging and thermal management
William C. Jennings    top
Emeritus Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer
Plasmas, gas lasers, microwaves.
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Electromagnetic's and Plasma Diagnostics
Engineering Education and Interactive Learning
Qiang Ji
Professor, Ph.D., University of Washington
Computer Vision
Research Interests
Computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, information fusion, robotics
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Computer Communications Networks, Internet Protocols
Research Interests
Computer networking, traffic management, congestion control architectures, network management, multicast, multimedia networking, performance analysis
Koushik Kar
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Computer communication networks
Research Interests>
Routing and traffic engineering, congestion control and resource allocation, ad-hoc and sensor networks, multicasting
Russell P. Kraft
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Yannick L. LeCoz
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physical IC CAD tools, parallel stochastic algorithms for solving massively coupled systems, electrical and thermal analysis of high-end digital ICs
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
James Lu
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Technical University of Munich
 
Research Interests
John F. McDonald
Professor, Ph.D., Yale
Communication theory, coding and switching theory, computer architecture, digital signal processing.
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Don L. Millard
Director, Academy of Electronic Media, Ph.D., Rensselaer
Research Interests
Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing
Clinical Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
George Nagy
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell
Pattern recognition, computer vision, computational geometry, solid modeling, knowledge-based systems, digitizing camera performance.
Research Interests
Pattern Recognition. Document Image Processing, Computer Vision
J. Keith Nelson
Professor, Ph.D. University of London
Dielectric Materials, Electrostatics and HV Technology
Research Interests
The physical phenomena of power system equipment. This embraces dielectric phenomena and high voltage technology, physical electronics and gas physics.
Leila Parsa
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Interests
Power Electronics, Energy Conversion.
William A. Pearlman
Research Professor, Ph.D.,Stanford
Information theory and source coding, rate-distortion theory, image and optical data restoration, image coding, communication theory.
Research Interests
Multimedia Systems, Image/Signal Processing and Networking
Richard Radke
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University
Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing
Research Interests
Image and video processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, synthetic video, watermarking, neural networks
Badrinath Roysam
Professor, D.Sc., Washington University, St. Louis
Computer Components and Operations, Computer Architecture, Networks & Operating Systems, Introduction to Parallel Computation, Biomedical Imaging
Research Interests
Real-time computer vision algorithms, 3-D image analysis algorithms for confocal microscopy, computer vision algorithms and automations systems for toxicology assays, internet servers for building biotech image analysis communities
Sheppard J.Salon    top
Professor, P.E. Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Electric Machines, Electromagnetic's, Numerical Computation
Research Interests
Research interests include electric machines and drives, electromagnetic's and numerical computing.
Arthur C. Sanderson
Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics, knowledge-based systems, computer vision
Research Interests
Task planning and architectures for robotic systems, sensor-based control of robots, computer vision and pattern recognition
Gary Saulnier
Professor, Rensselaer
Analog Electronics, Signal Processing Design
Shayla Sawyer
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 
Research Interests
Paul Schoch
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Plasma diagnostics, instrumentation, engineering education
E. Fred Schubert
Senior Constellation Professor, Ph.D., University of Stuttgart, Germany
Compound semiconductor materials and devices
Research Interests
Compound semiconductor materials and devices, Light-emitting diodes, Heterobipolar transistors, Semiconductor device physics, Solid-state lighting
Michael Shur
Professor, Ph.D., A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology
Advanced Concepts in Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
Research Interests
Semiconductor device research, thin film transistor research
Biplab Sikdar
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Computer communications networks
Research Interests
Network traffic modeling, management and engineering; Transport protocol design and performance evaluation
Jian Sun
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Paderborn
Power electronics
Research Interests: Power Electronics (converter topologies and control, modeling and analysis, magnetics, packaging and integration) and Power Electronics Applications
K.S. Vastola
Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Computer and communication networks.
John Ting-Yung Wen
Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Control System Engineering
Research Interests
Nonlinear control, robot control, control of flexible structures, control of deformation processes
John Woods
Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Digital signal processing, image processing, digital image and video compression.
Mike Wozny
Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona
Computer graphics, computer-aided design, digital simulation, rapid prototyping systems.
Birsen Yazici
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue
Inverse Problems in biomedical imaging tomography, diffuse optical tomography, biomedical optics, ultrasonics, statistical self-similarity, statistical pattern recognition theory
Tong Zhang     top
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
VLSI signal processing
Research Interests
VLSI architecture design and implementations for digital signal processing and telecommunications